The new car sales results have come in for April 2026. The most interesting thing is the surge in electric vehicles. Overall, April fared slightly better than the same time last year.
Ignoring heavy commercial vehicles there were 91,463 vehicles delivered in April.
Of these Petrol remains the dominant fuel choice followed by diesel then hybrids and PHEVs. Then EVs. However, they accounted for around 17% of sales for April, which is about double what was expected.
SUVs continue their surge in popularity with 8 of the top ten models. The other two were Utes.
Toyota remains the dominant brand with slightly under 16% but that is down from 20% last year.
They are followed by Mazda, Kia, Ford and BYD. The next top five brands are Hyundai, GWM, Mitsubishi, Chery and MG.
Going back even five years, few would have picked that brand makeup.
It seems that almost every month there is a new Chinese brand making its debut in Australia. With them they bring even more EVs, hybrid and PHEVs.
We seem to be the testing ground for models at times. Or some would say the dumping ground.
However, my now long forgotten economics degree tells me that when you increase supply and demand remains fairly constant, something has to happen. That will either be better pricing, some established brands disappearing. Ot even worse some new brands are here today and gone tomorrow.
There are interesting times ahead.
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Im Rob Fraser
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